Legal

How are your preparations for GDPR compliance going ? Hopefully you are well under way with this now as the deadline of 25th May 2018 is fast approaching. Research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) in the UK in…

How many business cards have you collected from people when you have met them networking over the years you have been in business ? And, have you subsequently sent them marketing emails or called them ? Did you know ……

Many businesses get a web site built, or do it themselves, but they are not aware that there are many items that they are legally required to include. Failure to comply with these requirements puts a company at risk of…

If you have been following my blog this year, you will remember that back in May, the new EU Cookie Law came into force and many were getting quite worried about complying with it and the threat of big fines…

Having reached the deadline today (24th May) for making websites compliant with the new EU Cookie Laws, it is expected that thousands of UK websites will not meet the new regulations. A last minute change in the ICO guidelines, released…

As expected, there continues to be quite a lot of press on this topic as we get nearer to the final deadline for compliance on the 26th of May. In an interview with Computer World UK magazine last week, a…

From 26th May 2012, new law states that all websites in the UK should ask all site visitors in advance for permission before storing “Cookies” on their PC. Failure to comply could result in a fine of up to a maximum of £500,000 for serious breaches.

The ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office), who are responsible for enforcing the law in the UK, have said they will take a dim view of organisations that fail to act before the deadline. ” Those who choose to do nothing will have their lack of action taken into account when we begin formal enforcement of the rules.” – Information Commissioner, Christopher Graham

The law also requires that you tell your visitors to your website about your use of cookies or other tracking technologies, and how they can delete or control them.